What drugs are you on? If you pay a percentage of your income mandated by the government for some service then that is income tax. Insurance is a private cont

What drugs are you on? If you pay a percentage of your income mandated by the government for some service then that is income tax. Insurance is a private contract with premiums based on actuarial assessment of risk. This is not some distinction I have come up with. It is what the words have always meant. I am sorry that you have been misled to think insurance is some sort of government wealth redistribution program but that just isn't so.